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If you have Perl installed on your machine you could also do ... 1) Highlight the text in TextPad and Copy it to the windows clipboard; 2) run "LineUpDelims.pl" from a windows toolbar (this munges the clipboard text for you); 3) Paste the modified clipboard contents over the highlighted Te...

GREETINGS : Please help me, I am on a mission to make TextPad the best text editor of its class, better than UltraFoo, FooTabPro and a whole bunch of others. I am on a mission to give *you* a lot of the features that *you* have been waiting for (YEARS). It can be done without a whole lot of work by...

Is DDE irrelevant, or is it worth figuring out? I ask this because there are a few postings on this forum related to "how can I use DDE with Textpad" ... and virtually none of them is answered. The ones that *do* have responses are either off-topic, or point to some arcane reference somewh...

The $Sel parameter macro does not work like you might expect. It only works with the first line of a multi-line selection. This is an understandable limitation, because it is difficult to send a multiple-line blurb of text as an argument to a script or program. You need some way of delimiting that b...

:idea: PROBLEM: There are *numerous* recurring feature requests for TextPad that involve 'munging' a particular subregion of the open text file (e.g., prefixing comment characters, getting context-sensitive help, code completion), but the proposed solutions for adding these features are not easy (e....